The New World

This past month has been really crazy at eRepublik with all the team working round the clock to optimize V1. I wanted to update you all though to let you know about our recent trip to FOWA as it was pretty rewarding.

We were really thrilled to be selected by Mike from TechCrunch UK and Ryan from Carsonified and FOWA for their European Start Up pitch competition. We were chosen with five other finalists who posted a 60 second pitch online. In a previous blog post, on my personal blog, I go over the unusual circumstances of how I posted ours from my hospital bed.

We were thrilled to participate, especially because the panel of judges was exceptional, including: Jason Calacanis, Mike Butcher, Ryan Carson and Brent Hoberman. As soon as we found out that Brent was on the judging panel we contacted Ryan and offered to retire from the competition, luckily for us, Ryan solved that issue by removing Brent´s vote for our specific case. (Disclosure: Brent is a friend and angel investor in eRepublik).

Having to pitch in 60 seconds a company that you and your team have been working on non stop for the past 18 months in front of hundreds of people from the industry and a very smart group of judges is super nerve wracking. But it’s an experience I really recommend, the great training and exposure from participating as well as the questions and feedback we got from the judging panel have proven extremely useful. Of course winning the competition was also quite a nice feeling and didn’t hurt for all the stuff we are doing behind the scenes :o)

You can see the video here, you can use the timeline shortcut if you just want to see the eRepublik part.

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This past month has been really crazy at eRepublik with all the team working round the clock to optimize V1. I wanted to update you all though to let you know about our recent trip to FOWA as it was pretty rewarding.

We were really thrilled to be selected by Mike from TechCrunch UK and Ryan from Carsonified and FOWA for their European Start Up pitch competition. We were chosen with five other finalists who posted a 60 second pitch online. In a previous blog post, on my personal blog, I go over the unusual circumstances of how I posted ours from my hospital bed.

We were thrilled to participate, especially because the panel of judges was exceptional, including: Jason Calacanis, Mike Butcher, Ryan Carson and Brent Hoberman. As soon as we found out that Brent was on the judging panel we contacted Ryan and offered to retire from the competition, luckily for us, Ryan solved that issue by removing Brent´s vote for our specific case. (Disclosure: Brent is a friend and angel investor in eRepublik).

Having to pitch in 60 seconds a company that you and your team have been working on non stop for the past 18 months in front of hundreds of people from the industry and a very smart group of judges is super nerve wracking. But it’s an experience I really recommend, the great training and exposure from participating as well as the questions and feedback we got from the judging panel have proven extremely useful. Of course winning the competition was also quite a nice feeling and didn’t hurt for all the stuff we are doing behind the scenes :o)

You can see the video here, you can use the timeline shortcut if you just want to see the eRepublik part.

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eRepublik Labs (one of the top 25 European start ups according to TechCrunch) is transforming the way strategy games are created, distributed and played by leveraging the power of communities and the Web.

"We invent Game Worlds" eRepublik Labs first game eRepublik.com is a massive online social strategy game that is set in a mirror version of the real world. It launched at the end of 2007.